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Project works with farmers to restore Brazilian pine forests

Luís Patriani 13 Sep 2021
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Myanmar’s snowcapped north is a haven for large mammals, new study finds

Carolyn Cowan 13 Sep 2021

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Philip Jacobson, Basten Gokkon, Taufik Wijaya, Seulki Lee, Makoto Watanabe, Annelise Giseburt 13 Sep 2021
Image by Valdir Hobus via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation sweeps national park in Brazil as land speculators advance

Ana Ionova 10 Sep 2021

‘On the map’: App shines light on 5,000 ‘invisible’ families in Brazil’s Cerrado and beyond

Sarah Sax 10 Sep 2021
Forest fire in a degraded area in the Mapinguari National Park, in Lábrea, Amazonas state on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

After surge, Amazon deforestation slows for second straight month

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2021

Should tree plantations count toward reforestation goals? It’s complicated

Gianluca Cerullo 10 Sep 2021
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Indonesia terminates agreement with Norway on $1b REDD+ scheme

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Sep 2021

As tourists flood a Tanzanian park, the Maasai say they’re being pushed out

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Sep 2021

Indonesia lays out plan to rescue 15 lakes under pressure from human activity

Basten Gokkon 10 Sep 2021

Africa’s montane forests are more carbon-dense than even the Amazon

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2021

What’s fair in conservation to locals? Just ask, study says

Nanditha Chandraprakash 9 Sep 2021

Deep-sea mining gets a resounding rejection from conservation authorities

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Sep 2021

As illegal logging route in Peru nears Brazil, Indigenous groups warn of calamity

Ana Ionova 9 Sep 2021
The reefs of the Coral Triangle are immensely rich. Image by Jeff Britnell / Coral Reef Image Bank.

Can we stop calling it biodiversity? There’s no word for what we’re losing (commentary)

Katherine Snow 9 Sep 2021

Seeing the maligned urban rat in a new light: Q&A with Michael Parsons

Jansen Baier 9 Sep 2021

Environmental activist ‘well-hated’ by Myanmar junta is latest to be arrested

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Sep 2021
Logging concession in Indonesia. Photo credit: Yudhi Mahendra / Mighty Earth

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change: Q&A with Glenn Hurowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2021

Razan Al Mubarak becomes first woman from the Arab world to head IUCN

Mongabay.com 8 Sep 2021
Flooded forest in the Amazon

We’ve crossed four of nine planetary boundaries. What does this mean?

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Sep 2021

‘Join us for the Amazon,’ Indigenous leaders tell IUCN in push for protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Sep 2021
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The first complete map of the world’s shallow tropical coral reefs is here

Carolyn Cowan 8 Sep 2021

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Sep 2021

In Kenya, push-pull method tries to debug organic farming’s pest problem

David Njagi 8 Sep 2021

Brazil’s biofuel program sputters on weak emissions accounting

Sibélia Zanon 8 Sep 2021
Rusting fishing trawler Fu Hai Yu 1111 in Sierra Leonean Waters. Image by Pierre Gleizes / Greenpeace

Industrial fishing harbor plan raises a stink in Sierra Leone

Mohamed Fofanah 7 Sep 2021

Amazon, meet Amazon: Tech giant rolls out rainforest carbon offset project

Juliana Ennes 7 Sep 2021

New research hopes to shine a light on wedgefish, the ‘pangolin of the ocean’

Caroline Chebet 7 Sep 2021
Pine forest in California's Sierra Nevada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Climate philanthropy’s opportunity for impact: Q&A with Bridgespan’s Sonali Patel

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Sep 2021

Spike in deforestation detected in Papua concession linked to South Korea’s Moorim

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Sep 2021

New Philippine corpse flower is phallic-shaped, funky smelling — and nearly extinct

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Sep 2021

If you think sharks are scary, blame Hollywood, new study suggests

Jansen Baier 7 Sep 2021

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